Born 28th April 1980, Slobodan Šešum studied political sciences and international economics in Ljubljana and Rijeka, earning his Ph.D. in International (Economic) Relations at the University of Ljubljana in 2016. After working at Ljubljana’s Centre for International Cooperation and Development (2004-06), he joined Slovenia’s MFA and became III Secretary of its Department for Economic Diplomacy (2006-08).

His was appointed Economic Counsellor at the Slovenian Embassy in Skopje, responsible for North Macedonia and Albania (2008-10), after which he became Economic Counsellor and I Secretary at the Slovenian Embassy in Belgrade.

Following three years in the private sector at KBM Bank Serbia (2013-15), he returned to the MFA as Minister Counsellor and Head of the Department for Bilateral Economic Cooperation, Directorate for Economic and Public Diplomacy (2015-17), followed by another foreign posting – as Economic Counsellor at the Slovenian Embassy in Rome, responsible for Italy, Libya, San Marino, Malta and Tunisia, and simultaneously as Deputy Permanent Representative to the FAO and WFP. Prior to taking on the post of ambassador in Belgrade, he served from 2021-25 in the MFA’s Directorate for Economic and Public Diplomacy.

Ambassador Šešum is a father of one son. Apart from his native Slovenian, he is fluent in Italian, English, Serbian and Macedonian, while he also has a basic understanding of German and Russian.